Motivational Quotes

Memory

For the sense of smell, almost more than any other, has the power to recall memories and it is a pity that you use it so little.

- Rachel Carson

Best Quotes about Memory

What is read twice is usually remembered more than what is once written.

Johnson, Samuel

People with good memories seldom remember anything worth remembering.

You can fall ill with just a memory.

Paolo Giordano

Life is all memory, except for the one present moment that goes by you so quickly you hardly catch it going.

Williams, Tennessee

The heart's memory eliminates the bad and magnifies the good.

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

For the memory of love is sweet, though the love itself were in vain. And what I have lost of pleasure, assuage what I find of pain.

Lyster

Observation is an old man's memory.

Swift, Jonathan

Our memory is like a shop in the window of which is exposed now one, now another photograph of the same person. And as a rule the most recent exhibit remains for some time the only one to be seen.

Proust, Marcel

Human memory is a marvelous but fallacious instrument. The memories which lie within us are not carved in stone; not only do they tend to become erased as the years go by, but often they change, or even increase by incorporating extraneous features.

Levi, Primo

10.

As with most fine things, chocolate has its season. There is a simple memory aid that you can use to determine whether it is the correct time to order chocolate dishes: any month whose name contains the letter A, E, or U is the proper time for chocolate.

Boynton, Sandra

11.

Creditors have better memories than debtors.

Benjamin Franklin

12.

You never know how much a man can't remember until he is called as a witness.

Rogers, Will

13.

The act of smelling something, anything, is remarkably like the act of thinking. Immediately at the moment of perception, you can feel the mind going to work, sending the odor around from place to place, setting off complex repertories through the brain, polling one center after another for signs of re recognition, for old memories and old connection.

Thomas, Lewis

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You are told a lot about your education, but some beautiful, sacred memory, preserved since childhood, is perhaps the best education of all. If a man carries many such memories into life with him, he is saved for the rest of his days. And even if only one good memory is left in our hearts, it may also be the instrument of our salvation one day.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

15.

Never forget what you need to remember.

Bartley, Garrett

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[Memory is] a man's real possession...In nothing else is he rich, in nothing else is he poor.

Alexander Smith

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It's a pleasure to share one's memories. Everything remembered is dear, endearing, touching, precious. At least the past is safe --though we didn't know it at the time. We know it now. Because it's in the past; because we have survived.

Sontag, Susan

18.

When to the sessions of sweet silent thought I summon up remembrance of things past, I sigh the lack of many things I sought, And with old woes new wail my dear time's waste.

William Shakespeare

19.

People may correctly remember the events of twenty years ago (a remarkable feat), but who remembers his fears, his disgusts, his tone of voice? It is like trying to bring back the weather of that time.

Gellhorn, Martha

20.

To be remembered after we are dead, is but poor recompense for being treated with contempt while we are living.

Hazlitt, William

21.

We have all forgot more than we remember.

Fuller, Thomas

22.

If you are speaking the truth you don't have to remember anything.

Twain, Mark

23.

If I could remember the names of all these particles, I'd be a botanist.

Fermi, Enrico

24.

But each day brings its petty dust our soon-choked souls to fill, and we forget because we must, and not because we will.

Arnold, Matthew

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It is surprising how much of memory is built around things unnoticed at the time.

Kingsolver, Barbara

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The memory represents to us not what we choose but what it pleases.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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When one of these flashbacks was reported to me by a conscious patient, I was incredulous. For example, when a mother told me she was suddenly aware, as my electrode touched the cortex, of being in the kitchen listening to the voice of her little boy who was playing outside in the yard.

Penfield, Wilder

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Leftovers in their less visible form are called memories. Stored in the refrigerator of the mind and the cupboard of the heart.

Fulghum, Robert

29.

If I could remember your name, I'd ask you where I left my keys.

Bumper Sticker

30.

Remembrance and reflection how allied. What thin partitions divides sense from thought.

Pope, Alexander

31.

When I was younger, I could remember anything, whether it had happened or not.

Mark Twain

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Memory is not an instrument for exploring the past but its theatre. It is the medium of past experience, as the ground is the medium in which dead cities lie interred.

Benjamin, Walter

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A man of great memory without learning hath a rock and a spindle and no staff to spin.

Herbert, George

34.

Be careful about lending a friend money. It may damage her memory.

35.

For the sense of smell, almost more than any other, has the power to recall memories and it is a pity that you use it so little.

Rachel Carson

36.

Like ultraviolet rays memory shows to each man in the book of life a script that invisibly and prophetically glosses the text.

Benjamin, Walter

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I'm still chasing girls. I don't remember what for, but I'm still chasing them.

Lewis, Joe E.

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Every man's memory is his private literature.

Huxley, Aldous

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In endowing us with memory, nature has revealed to us a truth utterly unimaginable to the unreflective creation, the truth of immortality. The most ideal human passion is love, which is also the most absolute and animal and one of the most ephemeral.

Santayana, George

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Memory is the treasury and guardian of all things.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Memory is the thing you forget with.

Chase, Alexander

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The more a man can forget, the greater the number of metamorphoses which his life can undergo, the more he can remember the more divine his life becomes.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

43.

When to the sessions of sweet silent thought I summon up remembrance of things past, I sigh the lack of many a thing I sought And with old woes new wail my dear time's waste. Then can I drown an eye (unused to flow) For precious friends hid in death's dateless night, and weep afresh love's long since cancelled woe,and moan the expense of many a vanished sight. Then can I grieve at grievances foregone, and heavily from woe to woe tell over the sad account of fore-bemoaned moan, Which I new pay as if not paid before. But if the while I think on thee, dear friend, all losses are restored and sorrows end.

Shakespeare, William

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It is said that God gave us memory so we could have roses in winter. But it is also true that without memory we could not have self in any season. The more memories you have, the more you have. That is why, as Swift said, No wise man ever wished to be younger.

Will, George F.

45.

Don't remember what you can infer.

Tennant, Harry

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The charm, one might say the genius of memory, is that it is choosy, chancy, and temperamental: it rejects the edifying cathedral and indelibly photographs the small boy outside, chewing a hunk of melon in the dust.

Bowen, Elizabeth

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Of what significance are the things you can forget.

Thoreau, Henry David

48.

Forget those things that aren't worth remembering.

Foley, Tim

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The effectiveness of our memory banks is determined not by the total number of facts we take in, but the number we wish to reject.

Wynne-Tyson, Jon

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This boy is dead now, I knew it before taking him in my arms, I can remember his face, his suffering, his voice.